Farrar, Rev. F.W.
Frederic William Farrar
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Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903), often known as Dean Farrar, was a theological writer.
Farrar was born in Bombay, India and educated at King William's College in the Isle of Man, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] At Cambridge he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1852.[2] He was for some years a master at Harrow School, and from 1871-76 Master (headmaster) of Marlborough College.
He became successively Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret's, Archdeacon of Westminster and Dean of Canterbury. He was an eloquent preacher and a voluminous author, his writings including stories of school life, such as Eric, or, Little by Little and St. Winifred's, a Life of Christ (1874), which had great popularity, a Life of St. Paul (1879), and two historical romances. His works were translated into many languages, especially Life of Christ.
He was a believer in universal reconciliation and thought that all people would eventually be saved, a view he promoted in a series of 1877 sermons.[3] He originated the term "abominable fancy" for the longstanding Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned would entertain the saved.[4] Farrar published Eternal Hope in 1878 and Mercy and Judgment in 1881, both of which defend Christian universalism at length.[5][6]
His daughter, Maud, was the mother of World War II British field marshal Bernard Montgomery.
Farrar has a street named after him - Dean Farrar Street in Westminster, London. In 2007 the top two storeys of a building on this street collapsed.
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- Farrar, Frederick William in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- University of Cambridge (1859) (PDF). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. http://books.google.co.uk/books/pdf/A_Complete_Collection_of_the_English_Poe.pdf?id=Gw6GyHofIIAC&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U0C1ql6Dwby1ZNXGr1xK8t55UU3YQ. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- The Eternal Fate of Unbelievers, Part II. "The Witness of Church History (2): The Modern Period". excerpted and adapted from Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment by Robert A. Peterson (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing), 1995. Used by permission. Extract by Garry J. Moes.
- The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment. Walker DP. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964
- F. W. Farrar. Mercy and Judgment. 1881.
- "Apocatastasis". New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I.
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This article incorporates public domain text from : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
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